Free Press

Free Press is a "national nonpartisan organization working to increase public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies which will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong noncommercial sector." Its founder and president is Robert McChesney.

Select Staff
Accessed January 2011:


 * Josh Silver, President and CEO
 * Kimberly Longey, Chief Operating Officer
 * Craig Aaron, Managing Director
 * Joseph Torres, Senior Adviser, Government and External Affairs
 * Amy Martyn, Administrative Director
 * Timothy Karr, Campaign Director
 * Jenn Ettinger, Media Coordinator
 * Carrie Cuthbert, Associate Development Director

Projects
DVD: Mobilizing Media Reform (distributed to media activists and created in conjunction with KGHD Productions features interviews with:


 * Jonathan Adelstein
 * Sherrod Brown, US Representative (D-OH)
 * Danielle Chynoweth
 * Jeff Cohen
 * Michael Copps
 * Linda Foley
 * Al Franken
 * John Freeman
 * Amy Goodman
 * Maurice Hinchey, US Representative (D-NY)
 * Jesse Jackson
 * Robert Jensen
 * Naomi Klein
 * Rahul Mahajan
 * Robert McChesney
 * Art McGee
 * Jeff Perlstein
 * Chellie Pingree
 * Anthony Riddle
 * Danny Schecter
 * Abby Scher
 * John Stauber

Music by DJ Spooky and Subliminal Kid Productions.

Funding
Mobilizing Media Reform "was made possible with generous support from:


 * Acra Foundation
 * Glaser Progress Foundation
 * Nathan Cummings Foundation
 * Otto Haas Charitable Trust
 * Overbrook Foundation
 * Park Foundation
 * Quixote Foundation
 * Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
 * and many individual donors."

(source: enclosed brochure)


 * Ford Foundation

Contact information
40 Main Street Suite 301 Florence, MA 01062 Phone: (866) 666-1533 Fax: (413) 585-8904 Email: info AT freepress.net Web: http://www.freepress.net

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